Posts Tagged: News, Politics, Events
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
Posted by on Thursday, May 10, 2007 in - 7 comments
I can't say the Jays deserve to be better than last in a surprisingly weak AL East but the time is coming to determine whether they have already packed it in for the season: • “The question is, on an injury-ravaged team that has fallen into last place in the American League East with a record of …
One Thing George Does Better
Posted by on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 in - 4 comments
George gets a rough ride. For the most part he deserves it to one degree or another but this whole thing with the Queen is a bit much even for me: • “He had stumbled on a line in his speech, saying that she had helped the United States "celebrate its bicentennial in 17..." Mr. Bush caught …
Bulletpoints For The First of May
Posted by on Friday, May 4, 2007 in - 11 comments
The shift from snow to having a lawn to mow is startling. I may already be behind. • Update: Scots election chaos. • Please note two key differences between me and Mike. • I decided this May Day would be the day we should thank a great unheralded socialist of the past. The socialist dream we …
The State Of Afghanistan Almost Six Years On
Posted by on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 in - 25 comments
I listened to this NPR report on Afghanistan on the drive home. Why do we not hear this stuff in Canada? Oh, maybe you do...I stopped listening to Canadian news media a while ago. Not as many banjo transitional interludes bits between the reports.
Stats Are A Mug's Game
Posted by on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 in - 3 comments
Expressing the results of a statistical survey is a tediuos and difficult thing to do yet it is the stuff of bloggers dreams, rife with the opportunity to point the finger of accusation and scream "BIAS! BIAS!!!" without any recourse to any foothold in reality. Yet this statement leaves me …
Four In A Row
Posted by on Monday, April 23, 2007 in - 2 comments
First sweep of the Yankees at Fenway in 17 years, fifth time in history that any team hits four homers in a row. To be fair, it was also rookie Chase Wright's, the pitcher, second game. • Without getting into a blow by blow, it was a bit funny when Wily Mo Pena, the fifth batter, did not hit a …
A Canard, I Say!!!
Posted by on Saturday, April 14, 2007 in - 1 comment
While the story is interesting in its own right, the summation is the business: • “The objection that reform would mean that rural interests would be ignored is a canard. The change would require candidates to present positions that galvanized all Americans. This is the truer and more certain …
April Showers Bring Friday Bullet-pointy Chatt-a-ramas
Posted by on Friday, April 13, 2007 in - 37 comments
This week. This was a short week. Short weeks are good in that Friday comes faster but it also has the air of less than a full week off as much as less than a full week of work. But was another week in your life. And it has passed. • Later Update: man's only trump card soon to be lost thanks to …
Saying Rude Words On The Radio
Posted by on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 in - 15 comments
The only time I have ever had the Don Imus show on was when I left the radio WFAN on all night. It is a weird show and that essentially because it is unfunny. And not just in its current embarrassment for using a racial slur so much as the second year undergrad quality of the slur and all the …
Iranian Suit Breakthrough
Posted by on Thursday, April 5, 2007 in - 28 comments
Styling. That is what it was all about. Not the need to protect Iranian waters. Not the pressure coming from the UN. It was the need to get a higher profile for the Iranian men's suit industry and I have to say Mr. Ahmadinejad has a point. Those are some manly shades of grey and choosing the …
